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AFSCME Public Policy Analysis Department Records

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Identifier: LR001994

Abstract Part 1 of the AFSCME Public Policy Analysis Department Records focuses on Deinstitutionalization, particularly at Wayne County General Hospital (WCGH). The hospital complex was located in western Wayne County, Michigan, approximately 16 miles west of downtown Detroit. Deinstitutionalization represented a major change in philosophy for mental health treatment delivery and was the term given to the process whereby mentally ill patients were moved out of large public hospitals and into smaller...

Dates: 1963 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1981

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFT President's Office: Assistant to the President Bella Rosenberg Records

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Identifier: LR002605

Abstract Bella Rosenberg served as the assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1984-2005, under Albert Shanker and Sandra Feldman. Albert Shanker was president of the AFT from 1974 to 1997. He was one of the first educators to embrace the findings of the report A Nation at Risk which outlined extensive problems in America’s public schools. Shanker and Rosenberg worked closely on various initiatives, many of them in response to the report. This included a peer review...

Dates: 1964 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1979 - 2005

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

American Federation of Teachers: Northeast Regional Office Records

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Identifier: LR002219

Abstract These records represent roughly a decade’s worth of general business including correspondence with state offices, meeting minutes, conference materials, policy documents and other items relevant to educational issues and topics for locals under the Northeast Regional Office. There is also valuable information on Education Alternatives Inc in Hartford, Connecticut and in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dates: 1975 - 1999

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

SEIU Education Department Records

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Identifier: LR001930

Abstract The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was founded in 1921 as a union of flat janitors. Over the years it has grown in size and scope, now comprising three divisions: healthcare, property services, and public services. SEIU’s Department of Education generates training materials for its members on topics including workplace training (for all three divisions), internal staff professional development, collective bargaining, organizing, and political campaigns. Document formats found...

Dates: 1980 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1992 - 2002

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

SEIU International Affairs Records

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Identifier: LR001871

Abstract The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was founded in 1921 as a union of flat janitors. Over the years it has grown in size and scope, now comprising three divisions: healthcare, property services, and public services. While most of SEIU’s members reside in the United States, the SEIU is an international union with members and affiliates in countries all over the world. The records of SEIU’s International Affairs Department document the SEIU’s relationships with companies, unions,...

Dates: 1985 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1998

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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